* Posts by Kettle3D

12 publicly visible posts • joined 30 May 2021

Say helloSystem: Mac-like FreeBSD project emits 0.5 release

Kettle3D

Re: More than enough

The problem we face is not insecure operating systems with paranoid devs, otherwise Windows wouldn't be a thing, it's ignorant users not realising that clicking on an app you download from the Internet can go badly.

With that said, it is hard to tell between an app bundle with the mimetype/pdf icon and a name ending in .pdf, and an actual PDF. I don't know how helloSystem could fix this.

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Re: The UI

What if everyone used a 3D VR window manager?

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Re: The UI

Will you give the same complaint to all the other platforms with a floppy save icon? Think Adwaita icons, Breeze if you use KDE, pretty much every win32 app, most Mac OS apps, they all use floppy drives as save icons. People recognise it!

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Re: The UI

There is something to be said for using the mouse to copy and paste in the CLI, but something like gpm or moused should do that.

Google wants to look like it cares about your privacy with Android 12 Beta 2, but note that's not how Google works

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Re: Still, it's this or iOS

Or you could start a new phone brand that uses Linux and KDE mobile, I'd like to see that.

Maybe it would be able to run off a bootable SD card...

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Re: Location Services

NZ's covid tracer app says it needs Location Services for Bluetooth contact tracing, I think it has to do with what you're using Bluetooth for, but audio output is not a case that needs location services.

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Didn't windows 8 change that? Or am I a little behind on the windows updates? Has Cupertino gone for a Windows 7 look again?

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Re: Still, it's this or iOS...

Pricewise, if you compare it to other phones...

Linus Torvalds tells kernel list poster to 'SHUT THE HELL UP' for saying COVID-19 vaccines create 'new humanoid race'

Kettle3D

Re: What does that mean?

Yes, well the last census revealed a one-digit number of those.

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Re: A new human race indeed

I think the final plan involves a hybrid of Windows 8 for Phones and Windows CE (the msdos based one, not the nt one)

Seven-year-old make-me-root bug in Linux service polkit patched

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This is true. But when most people these days refer to 'Linux' they are talking about the bulk of GNU/Linux distributions, and even in some cases FreeBSD.

It's like how you 'Google' something on Bing, or, increasingly commonly, call a Windows laptop a 'chromebook' and an ODT document a 'Word document'. Doesn't matter if you made it in LibreOffice or OpenOffice or Google Docs or manually wrote it in Notepad.

Remember Apple's disastrous butterfly keyboards? These lawsuits against the iGiant just formed a super class action

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Re: The keyboard jams when crap gets into the key mechanisms

> A lime green window, with a lime green title bar, and lime green text, lime green scroll bar

Surprisingly easy to do on Linux...